24 volumes, duodecimo, with four portraits and five folding maps; contemporary blonde speckled calf.This extensive set is a fundamental travel book, and the basis for any history of Portuguese exploration. This is the first collected edition of...

Tours: Alfred Mame et fils, 1893. Quarto, with many illustrations, some taken from photographs, gilt edges, in the original ornately pictorial cloth, with pretty decoration in silver and gilt.Fine copy of the first French edition, which puts the English edition of 1890 quite in the shade. It is scarce...

Eighteen small quarto volumes, with a total of 101 handcoloured plates and seven maps; an excellent set as issued in the publisher's tinted wrappers.Scarce in original condition: a record of Catholic missionary activity across the globe from the seventeenth to...

London: Harris, 1821. Octavo with a folding frontispice map, 84 hand-coloured engravings on 28 plates (three on each); original printed boards.Second edition of this children's study of Asian lands. Each engraving is numbered and complimented by a corresponding description. The pictures and text cover a number of Asian countries...

Engraved map, 460 x 560 mm., superb handcolouring; mounted.Fine early map of the East Indies showing the discoveries of Tasman by Frederick de Wit, at a time when he was one of the foremost map-makers in Holland. His firm's 'maps were...

Octavo, original spine, label and diced boards; with errata bound in.Uncommon: reflections on the state of play by an East India Company agent.Published a year prior to the abolition of the Company monopoly on Indian.....

London: John Debrett, 1783. Octavo, 26pp, disbound.A printed letter critical of Thomas Townshend's involvement as Home Secretary in the affairs of the East India Company, published before the contentious resignation of Warren Hastings as Governor of Bengal. The letter was addressed by Lord Bellamont to the Earl of Shelburne...

Thick folio, engraved title, followed by title-page in red & black, envoi to German Emperor Leopold I with separate armorial frontispiece, 65 plates, with one textual illustration and the terminal Errata leaf; contemporary full pigskin.....

London: Oxford University Press, 1954. Small folio, illustrated throughout in colour on every page; original illustrated linen-backed boards.First edition of this charming autolithographed children's book, one of several done by Hutton including A Picture History of Britain / France / Canada / Italy / Australia / America / Russia...

Eleven volumes, quarto, with a total of 132 plates (of which 24 are folding), some handcoloured; contemporary polished half calf with gilt spines.A splendid set in a handsome and well-preserved contemporary...

15 volumes, duodecimo, with numerous folding maps & plates; contemporary half calf.A delightful French miniature collection of voyages. There are three volumes each to the sections on Africa, Asia, America, Europe and the South Seas. This last...

Two volumes, quarto, with four folding maps; quarter vellum in antique style, original plain blue-grey wrappers bound in.The first "modern" edition of Marco Polo, the inspiration for all explorers towards the east. His reports of his travels...

PAULINUS OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW [also called Johann Philipp Wesdin or Werdin].

Rome: Typis Salomonianis, 1794.

Eighteenth-century India by a noted orientalist

Three works bound together, quarto, the first main work with folding map, 2 plates and an engraved portrait vignette, with two shorter pamphlets (24 & 26 pp.); an attractive copy in contemporary patterned vellum boards, spine banded, red morocco spine...

Quarto, with two large folding maps; expertly rebacked in polished calf with gilt lettered label, original marbled boards retained, an attractive copy.Carefully researched history of contact between Europe and India, by Scottish parson and...

Two volumes, octavo, with a world map and splendid folding engraved view of the Himalayas; contemporary green quarter roan, flat spines with gilt lettering.Endearing account of a world voyage, including a sojourn in Victoria, by eccentric traveller and mountaineer Henry...

Folio, title page printed in red and black; extra engraved title, engraved portrait, and 19 double-page engraved plates, with one full page engraving and many more engravings in the text; the second part...

Folio, illustrated throughout including photographic plates and full-page steel-engravings, original deep blue decorated wrappers.A particularly good copy of this important account of China and Tibet by the French missionary Évariste...

Journal kept by Captain J.T. Baldwin Madras Artillery during a voyage to India in the year 1835 [&] Original verses written on visiting home after a few years absence; Original verses on visiting Newgate after seven years Transportation;...

Two volumes in one, octavo, owner's name on title; contemporary French mottled calf.First edition of this important, controversial, and strangely prescient work, dedicated to Cyrano de Bergerac. By using the device of an imaginary voyage to...